Partnership announcements

Taiwan, as well as Latvia and Lithuania, are young democracy in all three countries law plays more and more important role on organization of private, social and political life. Complex contemporary social systems elevate the position of judiciary in contemporary democracies. Antimajoritarian institutional provisions and human rights impose some restrictions on the role of legislature and executive powers and place judiciary in special place in pollical systems. Judiciary had been playing a special role in development of democracy in all three countries.

The research hypothesis is that judiciary in young democracies played special role which require self-restrain. This is connected with epistemic authority of judiciary which is not restricted to legal but also require considerable extra-legal knowledge.

The aim of the proposed research is to compare judges’ attitudes to and opinion of democracy and rule of law. It will be done by semi-structured interviews with judges on different level in the system of administration of justice in respective countries. 

The questionnaire will include question about self-identity of judiciaries in respective countries (self-reflections about the status) and questions regarding their knowledge and education and nomination procedures.

The outcome of the research will be more realistic empirically oriented comparative analyses of the role of judiciaries in young democracies with stress on similarities and differences. It will be substantive contribution to comparative constitutional law.

Research Area:

• Homogenous and heterogeneous catalytic process for the production of biodiesel from low-value feedstocks.
• Thermal and catalytic pyrolysis process.
• Hydroliquefaction process.
• Carbon oxides conversion into biofuels or biochemicals through the Fischera-Tropscha process.

Research Topic:

Catalytic co-pyrolysis of plastic waste and organic residue for synergistic production of advanced biofuels and chemicals.

Photoelectric phenomena in nonuniform semiconductor structures, hot carrier phenomena, detection of electromagnetic radiation of wide frequency range, development of semiconductor devices, solar energetics.

For proposal:

• Idea 1. Graded gap semiconductor structures for wide spectral range electromagnetic radiation detection: development and MBE or MOCVD fabrication of detectors, study and optimization of their responsivity.
• Idea 2. Graded gap semiconductor structures for enhanced efficiency of solar cells.

In a collaboration with Latvian Academy of Art, our team has recently created a demo version of educational art game in order to support the development of serious gaming and enhance knowledge transfer in the area of modern aesthetics.

The idea has been already used in two research projects, the post-doctoral and the currenly on-going project supported by the European Commission, ImGame – An Innovative Digital Environment Based on Research with Elements of Immersive Aesthetics.

The project leader, Dr. Ieva Gintere has a PhD in musicology. We wish to develop the prototype and would be happy to collaborate. We would need a programmer in Unity. Please see the detailed idea attached.

2023-03-02
Prof. Dr.sc.ing. Andris Čate (Chate)
[email protected]; [email protected]
+371 6708 9124;  +371 26416672; Skype: and_cate
Institute of Materials and Structures,
Riga Technical University, Ķīpsalas Str. 6A, Rīga, LV-1048, room 434, LATVIA

The Institute of Materials and Structures (IMS) is a research institution of Riga Technical University (RTU). RTU is one of the oldest institutions of higher technical education in Eastern Europe. It is the only polytechnic university in Latvia and the largest university in the country – it educates and trains almost 15 thousand students. RTU is focused on becoming a third generation university that not only provides high quality education, but also conducts advanced research and ensures innovation and technology transfer, practically implementing scientific discoveries.

The IMS has more than 30 years’ experience in the field of modelling, analysis and optimisation of high-performance composite materials and structures. Recently considerable research has been conducted in the fields of damage identification and structural health monitoring; vibration testing and monitoring; and smart control of composite structures. The IMS has participated in many national, bilateral and European scientific and technological projects: H2020 (5 projects) and EU Frame Work Programmes 5-7 (24 projects). Scientific results have been presented in more than 300 papers in international journals, 5 monographs and at many international conferences. The IMS scientific team’s core competence is in composite material mechanics, numerical modelling, applied computational techniques, static and dynamic testing, sensing systems, optimisation and artificial intelligence theories.

• Optimal design of high-performance composites
• Experimental testing of high-performance composites; more info
• Finite element modeling and analysis of composite materials and structures
• Damage identification in structural elements
• Structural health monitoring

2023-03-01
Shu-Chen Liu
[email protected]
886-3-4227151 ext 27768, 27754
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, National Central University.
No.300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, Taoyuan, County 32001, Taiwan

• Head and Neck Cancer Tumor Microenvironment
• Immuno-Oncology
• Epstein-Barr Virus-Associated Carcinogenesis
• Radiation Oncology
• Single-cell Omics

The main study subjects of my laboratory focus on head and neck cancers, comprising basic and clinical studies. We primarily study the tumor microenvironment of EBV-associated nasopharyngeal carcinoma, oral cancers, and oropharyngeal cancers. We are interested in the roles of stromal components, such as adipocytes, fibroblasts, immune cells, and exosomes within tumor microenvironment. During the past few years, in collaboration with Chang-Gung medical center and National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, we've established experimental & analytical pipelines for tumor single-cell Omics studies and successfully conducted ~50 tumor-derived single-cell RNA sequencing experiments.

The collaborative subjects are not limited to the mentioned above.

Research Area: Environmental catalysis, catalytic air pollution control. Catalytic abatement of NO_x, VOCs, SO_X, Cl-compounds, CO_x, ozone decomposition, catalytic oxidation  and catalytic reduction of gas-phase pollutants, mechanisms for these reactions, and  catalyst characterization and stability. 

Research Topic: Low-temperature SCR of NO_x with NH₃ over metal (Mn, Ce, Cu) oxide catalysts

Air pollution is one of the most concerning world challenges. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 80% of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to air pollution levels that exceed the WHO recommended limits. According to European Society of Cardiology, air pollution causes 8.8 million extra early deaths a year.

Regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), nitrogen oxides (NOx), a contributor to acid rain and SMOG, and may pose a health hazard to people in areas of high exposure. A Selective Catalytic Reduction or SCR system is one of the most common processes for reducing NOx emissions during fossil fuel combustion.

In our collaboration we aim to prepare / synthesize the catalyst, test and do best possible characterization of it. Mn-Ce-(Cu)-V₂O₅-WO₃/TiO₂ composite catalyst is one of the promising gas-phase pollutant removal catalysts for SCR at low temperatures.

2019-04-08
Vita Rovite
[email protected]
+371 28474184
http://bmc.biomed.lu.lv/en/; http://www.genomadatubaze.lv/en/
Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre

2019-04-01
Arnoldas Kaunietis, Dr.
[email protected]
+370 685 31352
http://www.gmc.vu.lt/en/
Saulėtekio av. 7, LT- 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania

Kaunas University of Technology
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Design
Studentu 56, 51424 Kaunas, Lithuania

Currently the group is working to find out mechanisms which are involved in formation of auxotrophic starvation specific phenotype in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Purine nucleotide auxotrophy is typical trait of many eukaryotic parasitic organisms. Nucleotide  metabolism is target for several immunosuppressant therapies,  and is also foreseen as potent target for eukaryotic parasite control. Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is excellent eukaryotic cell model organism and powerful tool for drug screening.
Understanding mechanism of yeast cell reaction to nucleotide auxotrophy would facilitate yeast application in specific drug screens, developing strategies for control of biotechnological relevant auxotrophic strains, etc. 

We have hands on expertise in following methods:
- microbial cultivation (from microcultivation in 96 well plates to laboratory scale fermenters of several litres);
- yeast protein tagging and immunofluorescence;
- yeast stress tolerance assays (oxidative, weak acid and heat stress,  desiccation tolerance);
- enzymatic assays (photometric, fluorometric or luminescent detection);
- qPCR.

2016 04 04
Dr.oec. Maris Juruss
[email protected]
+371-29286119
Riga Technical University
International Business and Customs Institute
Kalnciema Street 6, Riga, LV-1048, Latvia
www.sesmi.rtu.lv

2016 03 04
Sigitas Vėjelis
[email protected]
+370 5 2512345
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University / Sauletekio  al. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius
Phone +370 5 274 5030 / fax. +370 5 2700112 / e-mail: [email protected]

2016 03 04
SERGEJ SUZDALEV
[email protected]
+37060409970
Klaipeda University / Open Access Centre for Marine Research
Herkaus Manto str. 84 / LT-92294 Klaipėda / Tel. +370 46 398846 / Fax. +370 46 398845 / e-mail: [email protected]

2015 04 15
Laura Bužinska (Latvia)  Žičkutė Ineta (Lithuania) 
laur[email protected] (Latvia)  [email protected] (Lithuania)
+371 286 21469 (Latvia)  +370 611 21952 (Lithuania)
Centre of Diaspora in Migration Research
University of Latvia
Raina bluvāris 19, LV-1586, Rīga, Latvia
www: diaspora.lu.lv

Interdisciplinary Scientific Cluster of International Migration
Economics and Business School, Kaunas University of Technology
K. Donelaičio St. 20-401, LT-44239 Kaunas, Lithuania
www.ktu.edu

Summary of research proposal:
This collaborative research project proposal has interests about return migration in later life as well as medical tourism in the context of ageing society. Nevertheless research topic can be changed in the future discussion according to the interests of the all 3 partners. Further in this document is the ideas about the research proposal as Latvian and Lithuanian research centres have discussed it.
So far the title of the research could be: Ageing and migration: maximizing opportunities for healthy later life. Comparative studies in Latvia, Lithuania and Taiwan.
All the countries are approaching the fact of ageing society. Also, ageing and migration has become one of the most topical issues in recent migration research worldwide. Our approach is based in well-being concept and understanding of people’s own needs during return migration or home visits in later life.
Moreover, such approach would provide detailed bottom-up understanding for practical policies, which need to incorporate viable solutions for those, who want to return home and have specific needs due to ageing. In the meantime, those diaspora members who do not want or cannot relocate to homeland permanently but use medical and recreational services back home time to time, would reveal so far under researched in little understood ways of cooperation between state, service providers and diaspora members themselves.

2015 03 10
Dr. sc. ing. Linards Grigans
[email protected]
+37167558664
21 Aizkraukles str., Riga, Latvia

2014 05 21
Irena Silineviča
[email protected]
+37129103480
Rezekne Higher Education Institution, Atbrivošanas aleja90, Rezekne, Latvia, LV-4600

business culture

2014 05 20
Leonidas Sakalauskas
[email protected]
+37067556923
VU Institute of Mathematics & Informatics, Akademijos st 4, Vilnius, LIthuania

Stochastic Programming, Stochastic Optimization, Data Mining

2014 05 19
Aleksej Rodin
[email protected]
(+370) 601 400 57
State research institute Center for Physical Sciences and Technology
Savanorių ave. 231, LT-02300 Vilnius, Lithuania

Development of new solid-state laser light generation and amplification technologies showing high potential in scientific and industrial applications. In particular interested in development of hybrid Nd:YAG and Yb:YAG fiber-crystal amplifiers for ultrafast lasers. 

2014 05 15
Acad. Prof. Dr.habil.sc.ing.Peteris Shipkovs
[email protected]  www.innovation.lv/fei
+37167558620
21 Aizkraukles str., Riga, LV-1006, Latvia

Main activities: Energy Resources, Solar Thermal Energy, Solar Cooling, Energy Efficiency, Enviroment Protection, Sustainable Energy Development.

2014 05 09
Vitalijs Pavelko
[email protected]
+371 67089961
www.rtu.lv        1-1 Lomonosova iela, Riga LV1019, Latvia

1) Nondistractive Testing & Srtuctural Health Monitoring
2) Layered composites: the resistance to low-velosity impact and the compressive strength of composite srtucture with impact damage

2013 06 03
Arūnas Lipnickas
[email protected]
+37065224932
+370 37 351589
http://www.avati.lt

Big portion of the human-to-human communication goes through non-verbal communication, i.e., hand gesticulation, facial expression and etc. The novel communication devices and robots should perceive and understand not only verbal or clearly discriminated commands, but also non-verbal signals w hich are more natural for humans. Such novel devices should use actuating force such as gesture, facial expresions, the eye gaze. During last decade the interest in such assistive or associative technology devices, so called gaze tracking systems and non-verbal (based- on gestures) communication, have been rapidly grow ing. This communication system w orks using video camera that captures fast motions of user eye, facial expressions and hand gestures. The object tracking systems recognizes specific motion of the user and associates the commands to the external device or/and to the applications on the computer.

Cooperation project w ill cover the research on the novel non- verbal communication type used for remote robot control and
„eye-to-eye“ communication w ith a robot.
 

2013 04 29
Zane Kalnina
[email protected]
+371-67808208; mobile: +371-26112733
+371-67442407
http://www.lbmc.lv/en/

Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Ratsupites St 1, LV-1067, Riga, Latvia
Our laboratory - Cancer Biomarker group, lead by Dr. Aija Line – for the last years has been extensively w orking on autoantibody profiling in cancer patients‘ sera in order to identify biomarkers for early cancer detection, prognosis and prediction of response to therapy. W e have succeeded w ith the identification of 45- autoantibody biomarker panel that could discriminate early stage gastric cancer from healthy donors w ith 90% specificity and 59% sensitivity (see Zayakin et al, 2013, Int J Cancer), and currently additional biomarker identification is ongoing in order to increase the diagnostic performance of the test panel.

W e are seeking for collaboration partners (clinicians) to w hom a collection of w ell-annotated pre-treatment serum samples are available or feasible to collect during the next year in order to validate the diagnostic performance of the autoantibody biomarkers in Taiw anese and Lithuanian population in a retrospective case-control study. Serum samples from patients w ith gastric cancer (all stages) and healthy controls w ould be of interest.
 

2013 04 29
Dr.habil.sc., Prof. Nicholas A. Nechval
[email protected]
+371 67034743
+371 67034775
www.lu.lv

New or improved technologies of information processing and decision making for efficient solving the following important practical problems (under parametric uncertainty of underlying models):

1.  Yield management

2.  Airline revenue management

3.  Airline seat inventory control

4.  Personnel management in tourism

5.  Inventory control

6.  Quality control

7.  Product acceptance sampling plans

8.  Predictive inferences for future outcomes

9.  Simultaneous predictive inferences for future outcomes

10.   Pattern recognition

11.   Signal detection

12.   Optimization of target value for an industrial process

13.   Stopping rules in a new product lifetime testing

14.   Inspection planning in service of engineering structures

15.   Inspection planning in service of fatigued aircraft structures

16.   Self-adapting inventory control

17.   Self-adapting airline seat inventory control

2013 04 18
Evaldas Visockas
[email protected]
(+370 5) 2101638
(+370 5)2497591
www.teise.org

Law Institute of Lithuania is mainly interested in these areas of research (though not limited to):
Economics and corruption: interests of government and business Comparative analysis of work and family balance measures taken by
the state
Intellectual property rights in online environment: scope and enforcement

2013 04 17
Dr. Janis Alnis
[email protected]
00371 67532584

www.bufpi.lv

To develop ultrastable lasers for precision laser spectroscopy and quantum information processing applications.

2013 04 17
Mihails Savrasovs
[email protected]
+371 67100584
+371 67100535
www.tsi.lv

Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TTI) is interested in research projects related w ith the follow ing areas:

• Transport: Intermodal Transport Netw ork, Transport Simulation and Modelling, Mobility, New technologies in Traffic Management, Innovative Decision Support Tools, Radar Monitoring of Roadw ay Coverage, Freight and Logisics, Logistic chain’s Analysis and Optimization;
• Information and Communications Technologies: Integrated Transport Information Systems, Intelligent Transport Systems, Modern Databases Technologies, Aerodrome Traffic Movement, Information & Control Systems, Computer Netw orks, Analysis and Optimal Projection of Computer Netw orks, Modern Netw ork Technologies;
• BI and Data Mining technologies;
• Electronics: Improving of Radio Systems and Complexes Efficiency by Means of Reception and Processing Equipment Optimisation, Subsurface Radar Sounding, Development of New Structures for Digital Filters, Maintenance of Air Navigation Systems.

Our experience: W e are active in research on local, regional, national and international level. The number of projects w as successfully completed on international level (see the list) and on national level (see the list).

2013 04 17
Dr.phys. Rita Veilande
[email protected]
+371 67225907
+371 67228249
www.atomic-physics.lv/

Expertise of the organization:
Low -temperature plasma investigations, high-resolution spectroscopy, light source technology, plasma/surface interaction, inductively coupled discharge, capacitatively coupled discharge, plasma nanotechnology.

Address of Institution:
High-resolution spectroscopy and light source technology laboratory, IAPS, University of Latvia, Skunu 4, Riga, LV-1050
Analytical spectroscopy, spectroscopic methods and imaging, plasma diagnostics, development of plasma sources and control system for environment, atom absorbtion spectrometry (AAS).

2013 04 17
Dr.oec. Agita Livina, Asoc. Professor, researcher E-mail: [email protected]
+371 29456089
+371 64207229
www.socsimnet.com  and www.va.lv/en

Management approaches of national parks and nature parks on focus sustainable development including visitor management, nature conservation and local development. Proposed research consists of integrated visitor management system in all three partner countries and an assessment of visitor flow s inside national parks. Open question for partner discussion w ill be national park role in local development, including social, economical, environmental and institutional factors. The main steps of the research include such steps as elaboration of methodology, data collection, analyse of data using statistical methods, development of simulation model, results and recommendations.

My experience includes research of elaboration of the North Vidzeme Biosphere Reserve (Latvia) Sustainable Development Profile. I done Fulbright supported research in the United States about national park management in the US. The Institute has significant experience in sociotechnical systems modelling and simulation (FP7 CHOReOS, FP7 FUPOL, Sustainable Tourism Cluster of Latvia, etc.).

2013 04 17
Dr. chem. Raivis Žalubovskis
[email protected]
+371 67014826
+371  67550338
www.osi.lv

Research interests or Summary of research proposal:
Currently our primary academic research interest is the design and synthesis of inhibitors of carbonic anhydrases (CA) w ith potential application as anticancer or anti-infective agents.

Our experience and support: W e have the broad experience in organic synthesis (including organometallic chemistry) gained during years of w ork in the academic projects as w ell as outsourcing projects for international pharmaceutical companies mostly related to medicinal and process chemistry. W e also have full analytical support (including 400, 600 and 800 MHz NMR (800 from year 2014), LC/MS, GC/MS, X-ray etc) and an opportunity for biological screening at the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis.

2013 03 29
Dr.sc.ing Egons Lavendelis E-mail: [email protected]
+371 29876891
+371 67089584
Department of Systems Theory and Design Riga Technical University
1/4 Meza str., Riga, Latvija, LV-1048

Research interests or Summary of research proposal:
W e are interested in the research projects in the field of artificial intelligence, mainly in the area of intelligent agents. The concept of the project might be to apply intelligent agents in some new appliction domain, so creating new type of intelligent softw are. Any oher project in the particular topic may also be interesting.

Our experienace includes projects in the follow ing areas of Artificial Intelligence:
Intelligent Agents and Their Practical Apllications Multi-Agent Systems and Their Practical Apllications Agent Oriented Softw are Engineering
Ontology Engineering
Machine Learning and Text Mining

W e have also experience in some other related areas: Robotics
E-Learning, Intelligent Tutoring Systems System Theory
Know ledge Engineering Information Systems

2013 03 29
Dr.sc.ing Agris Nikitenko
[email protected]
(+371)29424825
(+371)67089584
Meza str. 1/4, Riga, Latvija, LV1048

Project proposal in short: Greenhouse automation technology development using multi-robot system. Current developments provide intelligent-agent oriented communication methods including task scheduling, task planning, system health monitoring, w hich have been successfully implemented for domestic multi-robot system (vacuum cleaning).
Greenhouse automations tasks may include cleaning, precision fertilization and w atering, disinfection, harvesting and plant monitoring.

Our experience: w e have long scientific track in artificial intelligence, systems theory, intelligent softw are development and for the last five years robotics.

2013 03 25
dr Agnė Budriūnaitė, assoc. prof. Department of Philosophy, senior researcher Centre for Asian Studies
[email protected]
+370-37-331323
+370-37-331323
Vytautas Magnus University, Centre for Asian Studies, Vaižganto st. 30, Kaunas, LT-44229, Lithuania.

Chinese culture and philosophy, Daoism, Existential philosophy, classical and modern mysticism, interdisciplinary investigations into religious experience, religious interaction.